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Beast Companions
The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World
Buch von John Foster
Sprache: Englisch

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"Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In some cases, these animals reveal just as much, if not more, about the extinct ecosystems of the time as the dinosaurs [...] drawing on a wealth of current and past discoveries, Foster embarks on a sweeping journey across 164 million years to visit the beast companions of the dinosaurs. Along the way, he examines fish, insects, the first frogs and salamanders, turtles, snakes and lizards, marine reptiles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, birds, mammals, and other animals of the Mesozoic [...] Companions is a groundbreaking exploration of the story of these contemporaries of the dinosaurs that set the modern world in motion more than 200 million years ago"--
"Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In some cases, these animals reveal just as much, if not more, about the extinct ecosystems of the time as the dinosaurs [...] drawing on a wealth of current and past discoveries, Foster embarks on a sweeping journey across 164 million years to visit the beast companions of the dinosaurs. Along the way, he examines fish, insects, the first frogs and salamanders, turtles, snakes and lizards, marine reptiles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, birds, mammals, and other animals of the Mesozoic [...] Companions is a groundbreaking exploration of the story of these contemporaries of the dinosaurs that set the modern world in motion more than 200 million years ago"--
Über den Autor

John Foster is a paleontologist at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. He has worked in the Mesozoic rocks of more than two dozen stratigraphic formations throughout the western United States for more than 30 years, specializing in the paleoecology of Late Jurassic vertebrates, including dinosaurs and other animals. Although he likes that many of the paleontological sites in the Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions are in gorgeous and wild settings, he would not mind if they were closer to the beach and good waves. He is also author of Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World and Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Shadows in the Rain: Beginnings

2. A Critical Mass: Invertebrates

3. Sweet Delta Dawn: Fish

4. Smooth Amphibians: Frogs, Salamanders, and Cohorts

5. Mysteries Dark and Vast: Turtles

6. Beak-Heads: Ancestry of the Tuatara

7. Celebration of the Lizard (and Snake): Squamata

8. In the Realm of Poseidons: Marine Reptiles

9. Age of the Comb Jaws: Choristodera

10. Something Shocking: Crocodile Rocks

11. Wing Fingers: Pterosaurs

12. Feathered Dinosaurian Friends: Birds

13. Copy-Catted: Mammals and Synapsids

14. Epilogue: A Bump in the Road and Beyond

References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Tiere/Jagen/Angeln
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780253069405
ISBN-10: 0253069408
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Foster, John
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Maße: 256 x 186 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: John Foster
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,873 kg
Artikel-ID: 127332653
Über den Autor

John Foster is a paleontologist at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. He has worked in the Mesozoic rocks of more than two dozen stratigraphic formations throughout the western United States for more than 30 years, specializing in the paleoecology of Late Jurassic vertebrates, including dinosaurs and other animals. Although he likes that many of the paleontological sites in the Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions are in gorgeous and wild settings, he would not mind if they were closer to the beach and good waves. He is also author of Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World and Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Shadows in the Rain: Beginnings

2. A Critical Mass: Invertebrates

3. Sweet Delta Dawn: Fish

4. Smooth Amphibians: Frogs, Salamanders, and Cohorts

5. Mysteries Dark and Vast: Turtles

6. Beak-Heads: Ancestry of the Tuatara

7. Celebration of the Lizard (and Snake): Squamata

8. In the Realm of Poseidons: Marine Reptiles

9. Age of the Comb Jaws: Choristodera

10. Something Shocking: Crocodile Rocks

11. Wing Fingers: Pterosaurs

12. Feathered Dinosaurian Friends: Birds

13. Copy-Catted: Mammals and Synapsids

14. Epilogue: A Bump in the Road and Beyond

References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Tiere/Jagen/Angeln
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780253069405
ISBN-10: 0253069408
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Foster, John
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Maße: 256 x 186 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: John Foster
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,873 kg
Artikel-ID: 127332653
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